Book Launch: Towards harmonious, positive, postdigital Spaces for Learning

Book Launch: Towards harmonious, positive, postdigital Spaces for Learning

31st October 2024, 3-4.30 pm

Edinburgh Futures Institute Room 1.40 and online in Microsoft Teams

Dr James Lamb (Centre for Research in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh)

Dr Lucila Carvalho (Institute of Education, Massey University)

Book ticket

 

In this hybrid event, we will launch James Lamb and Lucila Carvalho’s collection, ‘Postdigital Learning Spaces: Towards Convivial, Equitable and Sustainable Spaces for Learning’ (Springer 2024).

Among other things, the ‘postdigital’ sees digital technologies as having become an everyday part of our educational and everyday surroundings, even if these resources are not accessed or experienced equally. In launching our book, we will consider how, within our postdigital times, we might nurture spaces for learning that are simultaneously in harmony with our pedagogical beliefs, the needs of learners, our natural world, and anything else that we deem necessary before being able to describe an environment as a ‘positive’ space for learning.

We will do this by weaving together live presentations with video stories by authors who contributed chapters to the book. These accounts will lead us on a critical journey across a varied range of educational contexts, from the mountain schools of rural Peru, through the streets of Edinburgh and São Paulo, to nature-based workshops in Southern California. We will get insights into the ways that space, technology and learning merge together within museum and galleries, in the design of Swedish schools, during the transcontinental rail journey, and in attempting to live with Long-Covid. At every stop, we will consider how ideas of the postdigital play-out in these settings, and connect within the equity, sustainability and conviviality of spaces for learning. This will lead-us towards reflecting upon how, within our postdigital times, we might nurture harmonious and postive postdigital spaces for learning.

 

Dr James Lamb 

James Lamb is a lecturer and researcher within the Centre for Research in Digital Education, and The Edinburgh Futures Institute, at the University of Edinburgh. His research and teaching particularly concern the relationship between digital technologies and learning spaces. This includes work that has explored the postdigital learning spaces of higher education, the ways that online students conceptualise the campus, mobile learning in urban settings, and how sound can shape our learning spaces. He has also written about multimodal assessment, and has argued the case for using sound in social research. He is a co-author of the Manifesto for Teaching Online and runs the Elektronisches Lernen Muzik project, which explores the relationship between music and learning. Personal website: www.james858499.net

 

Dr Lucila Carvalho 

Lucila Carvalho is an associate professor at the Institute of Education at Massey University (Auckland), New Zealand, where she is also co-director of the Equity Through Education Research Centre. Lucila’s research interests are at the intersection of sociology, design, digital technologies and learning. Her research explores how knowledge and social structures shape the design and use of technology, and the web of elements – tasks, people, digital and material tools – that come together to influence social and educational experiences. Lucila co-edited the books: Place- based Spaces for Networked Learning (with Peter Goodyear and Maarten de Laat, Routledge, 2017) and The Architecture of Productive Learning Networks (with Peter Goodyear, Routledge, 2014). Personal website: https://lucilacarvalho.wordpress. com/. 

Date of Event
Event Leader
Dr James Lamb, Dr Lucila Carvalho
Location
Edinburgh Futures Institute Room 1.40 and online in Microsoft Teams